It’s the end of May and I’m still wondering where the heck April blew off to. I didn’t do much reading (or posting) in April, but I did watch a whole lot of Netflix. It was super cold and wet here, so most of my time was spent crafting and watching The Umbrella Academy, Supergirl, The Flash, Empire Games, and probably a few more.
I did finish Caroline: Little House Revisited and felt like my original post could use some updating. There is a section in Caroline, where the prairie starts on fire. Ma is so focused on the fire that she can’t think and Miller is forced to write outside of Ma’s head. This is where Miller really hits her stride. Her descriptions of the prairie, the fire, the actions of the animals, the people, and the overall fire experience were excellent and very well done. I was completely immersed in this chapter and was heavily disappointed when Miller returned to the first person narrative (which she obviously had to do in order to keep with the rest of the book.)
Caroline, in my opinion, would have been an excellent book if Miller had written exclusively in this third person style and focused more on Ma’s perspective of the Little House stories and less on creating a first person narrative which turned Ma into a boring whiny insecure Puritan.
I’m in between activities and writing on the go, so short and sweet today!
Until next time, Happy Reading!
-R
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